Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. Rock and roll is a form of rock music developed in the 1950s and 1960s. "[47], Johnny Otis released the R&B mambo "Mambo Boogie" in January 1951, featuring congas, maracas, claves, and mambo saxophone guajeos in a blues progression. Le blues est apparu dans le sud des États-Unis au cours du XIXe siècle. Kevin Moore: "There are two common ways that the three-side [of clave] is expressed in Cuban popular music. Blues als Gesellschafts-oder Showtanz war nie sehr weit verbreitet in den USA. Morales, p. 276. She was a free-born black from Pennsylvania who was working as a schoolteacher in South Carolina, instructing both slaves and freedmen, and wrote that she "came home with the blues" because she felt lonesome and pitied herself. [92][93], The white bandleader of the Bill Black Combo, Bill Black, who had helped start Elvis Presley's career and was Elvis's bassist in the 1950s, was popular with black listeners. Zydeco musicians used electric solo guitar and cajun arrangements of blues standards. The Blues Music Awards are presented by the Blues Foundation, an organization to promote the blues music. Bessie Smith, Robert Lee Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker und Willie Dixon – sie sind die Helden des Blues. [111], British rhythm and blues and blues rock developed in the early 1960s, largely as a response to the recordings of American artists, often brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain, or seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle and Belfast. At a 7:4 ratio, it is not close to any interval on the conventional Western diatonic scale. [124][125], The blues' 12-bar structure and the blues scale was a major influence on rock and roll music. Smith would "sing a song in an unusual key, and her artistry in bending and stretching notes with her beautiful, powerful contralto to accommodate her own interpretation was unsurpassed". The blues evolved from informal performances in bars to entertainment in theaters. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, hip-hop started to capture the imagination of America's youth. This sound has gained in popularity and created great controversy for both hip-hop and R&B in how to identify it. Many early rock and roll songs are based on blues: "That's All Right Mama", "Johnny B. Goode", "Blue Suede Shoes", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On", "Shake, Rattle, and Roll", and "Long Tall Sally". Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, the Treniers, the Platters, the Flamingos, all made it onto the big screen. [89] Brook Benton was at the top of the R&B charts in 1959 and 1960 with one number-one and two number-two hits. Moore (2011). Although Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine is credited with coining the term "rhythm and blues" as a musical term in the United States in 1948,[6] the term was used in Billboard as early as 1943. Liste des titres. It combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, disco, hip hop, and electronic music. [117], In the 1990s, the largely ignored hill country blues gained minor recognition in both blues and alternative rock music circles with northern Mississippi artists R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. L.A. Reid, the CEO of LaFace Records, was responsible for some of R&B's greatest successes in the 1990s in the form of Usher, TLC and Toni Braxton. Bebop classics, such as Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time", used the blues form with the pentatonic scale and blue notes. While popular musicians like Bo Diddley[89] and Chuck Berry,[95] both recording for Chess, were influenced by the Chicago blues, their enthusiastic playing styles departed from the melancholy aspects of blues. Carr accompanied himself on the piano with Scrapper Blackwell on guitar, a format that continued well into the 1950s with artists such as Charles Brown and even Nat "King" Cole.[70]. [30] The simplest shuffles, which were the clearest signature of the R&B wave that started in the mid-1940s,[31] were a three-note riff on the bass strings of the guitar. Nr. Singers such as Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller performed in the southeastern "delicate and lyrical" Piedmont blues tradition, which used an elaborate ragtime-based fingerpicking guitar technique. [17], Hokum blues celebrated both comedic lyrical content and a boisterous, farcical performance style. The music of the British mod subculture grew out of rhythm and blues and later soul performed by artists who were not available to the small London clubs where the scene originated. The film drew many of the biggest living influencers of the rhythm and blues genre together, such as Ray Charles, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, and John Lee Hooker. [1] The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. For example, 40% of 1952 sales at Dolphin's of Hollywood record shop, located in an African-American area of Los Angeles, were to whites. In melody, blues is distinguished by the use of the flattened third, fifth and seventh of the associated major scale.[29]. Charles Peabody mentioned the appearance of blues music at Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Gate Thomas reported similar songs in southern Texas around 1901–1902. Musikken var stærkt påvirket af slavernes dårlige sociale og arbejdsmæssige forhold. [56], The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South in the early twentieth century) and the banjo are African-derived instruments that may have helped in the transfer of African performance techniques into the early blues instrumental vocabulary. Er war einer der ersten Blues-Songs, der als Pop-Song Erfolg hatte. In 1957, he said: "What they call rock 'n' roll now is rhythm and blues. Bluesmen such as Big Bill Broonzy and Willie Dixon started looking for new markets in Europe. "Funky Drummer: New Orleans, James Brown and the Rhythmic Transformation of American Popular Music.". [63][64], Though musicologists can now attempt to define the blues narrowly in terms of certain chord structures and lyric forms thought to have originated in West Africa, audiences originally heard the music in a far more general way: it was simply the music of the rural south, notably the Mississippi Delta. One blues rock performer, Jimi Hendrix, was a rarity in his field at the time: a black man who played psychedelic rock. The blues is a form of music that started in the United States during the start of the 20th century. [74][75], City or urban blues styles were more codified and elaborate, as a performer was no longer within their local, immediate community, and had to adapt to a larger, more varied audience's aesthetic. [13] This melancholy has led to the suggestion of an Igbo origin for blues because of the reputation the Igbo had throughout plantations in the Americas for their melancholic music and outlook on life when they were enslaved.[14][15]. Sie werden seit 1980 jährlich in Memphis für besondere Verdienste um den Blues vergeben. However, the jump blues of the 1940s mixed both styles. They are now lost. W.C. I know that's wrong. Blues. Its influence on popular singing has been so widespread that, at least among males, singing and emoting have become almost identical—it is a matter of projection rather than hitting the notes.". Lot of kids got hurt.". [2] Boggs, Vernon (1993 pp. The blues form is a cyclic musical form in which a repeating progression of chords mirrors the call and response scheme commonly found in African and African-American music. [59] However, in the 1920s, when country blues began to be recorded, the use of the banjo in blues music was quite marginal and limited to individuals such as Papa Charlie Jackson and later Gus Cannon. In the late 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "contemporary R&B". Electric blues used electric guitars, double bass (gradually replaced by bass guitar), drums, and harmonica (or "blues harp") played through a microphone and a PA system or an overdriven guitar amplifier. This rapidly evolving market was mirrored by Billboard magazine's Rhythm and Blues chart. Jump blues grew up from the boogie woogie wave and was strongly influenced by big band music. For the modern style of R&B music, see, Music genre that originated in African American communities in the 1940s, Jews in the business end of rhythm and blues. [25] Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers' concerts were sweaty riotous affairs that got shut down on more than one occasion. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. On numerous recordings by Fats Domino, Little Richard and others, Bartholomew assigned this repeating three-note pattern not just to the string bass, but also to electric guitars and even baritone sax, making for a very heavy bottom. King, also straddled the blues and R&B genres. The British and blues musicians of the early 1960s inspired a number of American blues rock fusion performers, including the Doors, Canned Heat, the early Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, The J. Geils Band, Ry Cooder, and the Allman Brothers Band. [29] The habanera rhythm can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat. Ed. [32] Wynton Marsalis considers tresillo to be the New Orleans "clave" (although technically, the pattern is only half a clave). Der Blues ist kein Klagelied, sondern eine poetisch-musikalische Form des Ausdrucks sozialer Erfahrungen im Just plant your both feet on each side. 30–31). 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Bebop marked a major shift in the role of jazz, from a popular style of music for dancing, to a "high-art", less-accessible, cerebral "musician's music". Spiritual singing developed because African-American communities could gather for mass or worship gatherings, which were called camp meetings. Perkins is quoted as saying, "It was dangerous. [12] The lines are often sung following a pattern closer to rhythmic talk than to a melody. 930 in Film-Soundtracks (Songs) Kundenrezensionen: 4,6 von 5 Sternen 357 Sternebewertungen. Garofalo cited other authors who also mention the "Ethiopian airs" and "Negro spirituals". Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s. [65], The origins of the blues are closely related to the religious music of Afro-American community, the spirituals. The Blues Music Award is one of the highest honors a blues musician can get in the USA. Freed began referring to the rhythm and blues music he played as "rock and roll". The "Bo Diddley beat" (1955) is perhaps the first true fusion of 3–2 clave and R&B/rock 'n' roll. [129] In the early 20th century, the blues was considered disreputable, especially as white audiences began listening to the blues during the 1920s. Handy was a formally trained musician, composer and arranger who helped to popularize the blues by transcribing and orchestrating blues in an almost symphonic style, with bands and singers. [122] From the '70s to '80s, Carl Douglas, Hot Chocolate, Delegation, Junior, Central Line, Princess, and Jacki Graham gained hits on pop or R&B chart. The 12-bar blues structure can be found even in novelty pop songs, such as Bob Dylan's "Obviously Five Believers" and Esther and Abi Ofarim's "Cinderella Rockefella". In the early 1970s, the Texas rock-blues style emerged, which used guitars in both solo and rhythm roles. Edward P. Comentale has noted how the blues was often used as a medium for art or self-expression, stating: "As heard from Delta shacks to Chicago tenements to Harlem cabarets, the blues proved—despite its pained origins—a remarkably flexible medium and a new arena for the shaping of identity and community."[123]. B. Lyrics often seemed fatalistic, and the music typically followed predictable patterns of chords and structure.[16]. The notion of blues as a separate genre arose during the black migration from the countryside to urban areas in the 1920s and the simultaneous development of the recording industry. In England, electric blues took root there during a much acclaimed Muddy Waters tour in 1958. Before World War II, the boundaries between blues and jazz were less clear. The bands dressed in suits, and even uniforms, a practice associated with the modern popular music that rhythm and blues performers aspired to dominate. However, the blues wave that brought artists such as Muddy Waters to the foreground had stopped. [50], The use of clave in R&B coincided with the growing dominance of the backbeat, and the rising popularity of Cuban music in the U.S. "[54] As Ned Sublette points out though: "By the 1960s, with Cuba the object of a United States embargo that still remains in effect today, the island nation had been forgotten as a source of music. Alan Lomax's recordings of Mississippi Fred McDowell would eventually bring him wider attention on both the blues and folk circuit, with McDowell's droning style influencing North Mississippi hill country blues musicians. Blues musical styles, forms (12-bar blues), melodies, and the blues scale have influenced many other genres of music, such as rock and roll, jazz, and popular music. Although the audience was largely jolted by the performance, the performance influenced local musicians such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies to emulate this louder style, inspiring the British invasion of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds.[98]. "Gradually, instrumental and harmonic accompaniment were added, reflecting increasing cross-cultural contact." [114], "R&B" and "RnB" redirect here. There are also 16-bar blues, such as Ray Charles's instrumental "Sweet 16 Bars" and Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man". According to John Storm Roberts, R&B became the vehicle for the return of Cuban elements into mass popular music. It's a killer![35]. Le terme est originellement utilisé par les compagnies de disque pour décrire des albums ciblant uniquement la … King introduced a sophisticated style of guitar soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists. In Harlem or Havana, you can kiss the old Savannah. Contemporary African-American performers who work in this style of the blues include Bobby Rush, Denise LaSalle, Sir Charles Jones, Bettye LaVette, Marvin Sease, Peggy Scott-Adams, Mel Waiters, Clarence Carter, Dr. "Feelgood" Potts, O.B. Newer artists such as Usher, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson, TLC, Aaliyah, Destiny's Child, Tevin Campbell and Mary J. Blige, enjoyed success. "[41] In the late 1940s, this changed somewhat when the two-celled time line structure was brought into the blues. They took a little rhumba rhythm and added boogie-woogie and now look what they got! [109] Boogie-woogie was pioneered by the Chicago-based Jimmy Yancey and the Boogie-Woogie Trio (Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis). by Carl Perkins and David McGee 1996 pages 111 Hyperion Press, Go, Cat, Go! In the 1950s, soul music by Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and James Brown used gospel and blues music elements. [69] The slide guitar became an important part of the Delta blues. Tennessee-born Bobby "Blue" Bland, like B. Most blues feature simple, usually three-chord, progressions and have simple structures that are open to endless improvisations, both lyrical and musical. While singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control. Some labels are famous for rediscovering and remastering blues rarities, including Arhoolie Records, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (heir of Folkways Records), and Yazoo Records (Shanachie Records).[119]. Handy.[67]. An important label of this era was the Chicago-based Bluebird Records. Kunzler's dictionary of jazz provides two separate entries: "blues", and the "blues form", a widespread musical form (p. 131). The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery and, later, the development of juke joints. That blue notes predate their use in blues and have an African origin is attested to by "A Negro Love Song", by the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from his African Suite for Piano, written in 1898, which contains blue third and seventh notes. Blues forms are used in the theme to the televised Batman, teen idol Fabian Forte's hit, "Turn Me Loose", country music star Jimmie Rodgers' music, and guitarist/vocalist Tracy Chapman's hit "Give Me One Reason". The word mambo, larger than any of the other text, is placed prominently on the record label. British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. [114] Although this interest in the blues would influence major British rock musicians, including Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, John Mayall, Free, and Cream adopted an interest in a wider range of rhythm and blues styles. The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. Von vielen werden die Awards als die höchste Auszeichnung angesehen, die ein Bluesmusiker in den USA erhalten kann. According to Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records, sales were localized in African-American markets; there was no white sales nor white radio play. The social and economic reasons for the appearance of the blues are not fully known. [20] Jordan's band, the Tympany Five (formed in 1938), consisted of him on saxophone and vocals, along with musicians on trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano, bass and drums. [21] The repertoires of many seminal blues artists, such as Charley Patton and Skip James, included religious songs or spirituals. Perhaps the most visible example of the blues style of music in the late 20th century came in 1980, when Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi released the film The Blues Brothers. But the origins of the blues were some decades earlier, probably around 1890. It was started by former African slaves from spirituals, praise songs, and chants. The Blues Foundation started the awards in 1980 under the name W. C. Handy Awards. "[50] He also cites Otis Rush, Ike Turner and Ray Charles, as R&B artists who employed this feel. [42][43] [97][98] Motown Records had its first million-selling single in 1960 with the Miracles' "Shop Around",[99] and in 1961, Stax Records had its first hit with Carla Thomas' "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)". Before the "Rhythm and Blues" name was instated, various record companies had already begun replacing the term "race music" with "sepia series".[12]. "[55], At first, only African Americans were buying R&B discs. Usually jazz had harmonic structures stemming from brass bands, whereas blues had blues forms such as the 12-bar blues. The first recording by an African American singer was Mamie Smith's 1920 rendition of Perry Bradford's "Crazy Blues". Sie sangen Lieder auf dem Feld, um die eintönige und harte Arbeit bes… Kentucky-born Sylvester Weaver was in 1923 the first to record the slide guitar style, in which a guitar is fretted with a knife blade or the sawed-off neck of a bottle. In the 1960s and 1970s, gospel and blues were merged in soul blues music. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Rhumboogie, it's Harlem's new creation with the Cuban syncopation, it's the killer! in the break after the introduction. [54], No specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. And I can't get no hearing from that Memphis girl of mine, Although the blues gained an association with misery and oppression, the lyrics could also be humorous and raunchy:[16], Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me, The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar. Robert Palmer reports that, in the 1940s, Professor Longhair listened to and played with musicians from the islands and "fell under the spell of Perez Prado's mambo records. "[110]Jews played a key role in developing and popularizing African American music, including rhythm and blues, and the independent record business was dominated by young Jewish men who promoted the sounds of black music. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music throughout the United States. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, and saxophone. During this period, Freddie King and Albert King often played with rock and soul musicians (Eric Clapton and Booker T & the MGs) and had a major influence on those styles of music. [14] However, AllMusic separates it from jump blues because of R&B's stronger gospel influences. Filmmakers took advantage of the popularity of "rhythm and blues" musicians as "rock n roll" musicians beginning in 1956. Although blues (as it is now known) can be seen as a musical style based on both European harmonic structure and the African call-and-response tradition that transformed into an interplay of voice and guitar,[50][51] the blues form itself bears no resemblance to the melodic styles of the West African griots. [100][101] Stax's next major hit, The Mar-Keys' instrumental "Last Night" (also released in 1961) introduced the rawer Memphis soul sound for which Stax became known. The film earned Mahal a Grammy nomination for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture and a BAFTA nomination. King, Bo Diddley, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Musselwhite, Blues Traveler, Jimmie Vaughan, and Jeff Baxter. Subcategories. "[citation needed] Hi Records did not feature pictures of the Combo on early records. It is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves. A lot of the 1970s-era "outlaw" country music by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings also borrowed from the blues. The basic 12-bar lyric framework of a blues composition is reflected by a standard harmonic progression of 12 bars in a 4/4 time signature. Garofalo, pp. In fact, the author stated that the "two terms were used interchangeably", until about 1957. [41] All these sources show the existence of many different structures distinct from twelve-, eight-, or sixteen-bar. Il débute au sein du groupe Rising Sons (en) avec Ry Cooder et Jesse Ed Davis, puis se tourne vers le blues et la world music.Vers 1962, le groupe joue la reprise Stateboro Blues, chanson qui les fait connaitre en 1968 lorsqu'elle est publiée sur la compilation The Rock Machine Turns You On (en raison du succès de leur prestation au The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus). [120] Another American GI, Jimmy James, born in Jamaica, moved to London after two local number one hits with The Vagabonds in 1960 and built a strong reputation as a live act, releasing a live album and their debut, The New Religion, in 1966 and achieving moderate success with singles before the original Vagabonds broke up in 1970. Campbell, Michael, and James Brody (2007: 83). B. Afro-Cuban music was the conduit by which African American music was "re-Africanized," through the adoption of two-celled figures like clave and Afro-Cuban instruments like the conga drum, bongos, maracas and claves. King, Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr., Jeff Beck, Derek Trucks, Keb Mo, and others. Spirituals or religious chants in the African-American community are much better documented than the "low-down" blues. The audience for both blues and jazz split, and the border between blues and jazz became more defined. The new blue music: changes in rhythm & blues, 1950–1999, p. 8, Night Club Reviews Billboard February 27, 1943 page 12, Vaudeville reviews Billboard March 4, 1944 page 28. However, it was not until he prepared a demo in 1954, that caught the attention of Specialty Records, that the world would start to hear his new, uptempo, funky rhythm and blues that would catapult him to fame in 1955 and help define the sound of rock 'n' roll. Their style is characterized by the use of electric guitar, sometimes slide guitar, harmonica, and a rhythm section of bass and drums. For other uses, see, "Blues singing is about emotion. [19], In 1948, RCA Victor was marketing black music under the name "Blues and Rhythm". [citation needed], By the 1970s, the term "rhythm and blues" was being used as a blanket term for soul, funk, and disco.[105]. and the whole world let them peoples go down there free. [13] He has used the term "R&B" as a synonym for jump blues. In the 1950s, blues had a huge influence on mainstream American popular music. Musicians were therefore segregated into two categories: gospel singers and blues singers, guitar preachers and songsters. So wird die Terz gemeinhin zwischen kleiner und großer Terz intoniert. This marketing strategy reinforced trends in urban blues music such as the use of electric instruments and amplification and the generalization of the blues beat, the blues shuffle, which became ubiquitous in rhythm and blues (R&B). Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me, The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In 1940 Bob Zurke released "Rhumboogie," a boogie-woogie with a tresillo bass line, and lyrics proudly declaring the adoption of Cuban rhythm: Harlem's got a new rhythm, man it's burning up the dance floors because it's so hot! [34] The use of tresillo was continuously reinforced by the consecutive waves of Cuban music, which were adopted into North American popular culture. The St. Louis Blues oder St. Louis Blues ist ein klassischer Blues, den W. C. Handy schrieb. [58] Faye Adams's "Shake a Hand" made it to number two in 1952. Muddy Waters and Elmore James were known for their innovative use of slide electric guitar. [76] Classic female urban and vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s, among them "the big three"—Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Lucille Bogan. [92] The saxophonist J. T. Brown played in bands led by Elmore James and by J. Chicago became a center for electric blues from 1948 on, when Muddy Waters recorded his first success, "I Can't Be Satisfied". Most artists of the Chicago blues style recorded for the Chicago-based Chess Records and Checker Records labels. Other hits include: "Gee Baby", "Mambo Boogie" and "All Nite Long". She Caught the Katy : Taj Mahal, Rachell: The Blues Brothers avec Jake Blues au chant: 4:10: 2. The blues scale is ubiquitous in modern popular music and informs many modal frames, especially the ladder of thirds used in rock music (for example, in "A Hard Day's Night"). Smaller blues labels of this era included Vee-Jay Records and J.O.B. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current structure became standard: the so-called "AAB" pattern, consisting of a line sung over the four first bars, its repetition over the next four, and then a longer concluding line over the last bars. [94], Sam Cooke's number five hit "Chain Gang" is indicative of R&B in 1960, as is pop rocker Chubby Checker's number five hit "The Twist". [21], Depending on the religious community a musician belonged to, it was more or less considered a sin to play this low-down music: blues was the devil's music. [70] That same year The Orioles, a doo-wop group, had the #4 hit of the year with "Crying in the Chapel". The most explicit is 'Longhair's Blues Rhumba,' where he overlays a straightforward blues with a clave rhythm. The long boom following World War II induced another massive migration of the African-American population, the Second Great Migration, which was accompanied by a significant increase of the real income of the urban blacks. In several of his early recordings, Professor Longhair blended Afro-Cuban rhythms with rhythm and blues. [9], The phrase "the blues" was written by Charlotte Forten, then aged 25, in her diary on December 14, 1862. [70] The first blues recordings from the 1920s are categorized as a traditional, rural country blues and a more polished city or urban blues. Idiosyncratic numbers of bars are occasionally used, such as the 9-bar progression in "Sitting on Top of the World", by Walter Vinson.
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